1385 5 5
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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138523
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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138500
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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.
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138484
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A man bows his head
and crosses his chest
before crossing the street
and the rain keeps falling
on his bare blue shirt
and on top of his head
The taxis will not stop
The light’s still red
as the man waits
for the sign of the hands
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1384158
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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1384106
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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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138477
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138432
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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138433
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He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.
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138400
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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138463
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My father seems anxious about my gender orientation. I grew up looking like a boy, acting like a boy. He bought dresses and girly stuff for me but he avoided making an issue of it until recently.
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138434
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Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
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138410
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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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138455
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138400
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Your father, his father, and his before that, your mother, her mother, and all the way back have kept a tradition by chance or by will to each have a baby (or several) until…
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138420
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“Have I told you this one before?”
I can’t think of one he hasn’t told me, but saying so won’t stop him. I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay.
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138477
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You don't have to push back so hard. We wore our hair long. We wanted the animals to trust us in their wild open spaces. Everything will come undone. We wore our hair long because we wanted to Be able to find our way home in the dark…
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138422
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138342
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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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138341
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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138341
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No matter how bad his hair turned out or how avocado shaped one of those miscreants could make his head look, he would remain silent.
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138354
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Been looking for guns.
His guns have turned up missing.
He’s been looking for the guns.
Looking for guns.
The au-pair must’ve snuck back in
And took the guns.
And the baby.
The baby must be crawling off with
Guns again.
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138310
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Flicking through the sheets on her clipboard, Evelyn double checked the address with the mismatched numbers on the letterbox. Its mouth was a rusty, gaping grin like it had lost its dentures.
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138322
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'Like poems,’ I said
she paused and nodded
her black mop.
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13831911
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138398
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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138387
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138322
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A single woman should regard every train ride as an opportunity, I once read in one of those “How to Find A Boyfriend” books. “When boarding the train, don't take the first available seat,“ the author advised. “Walk through all the cars…
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1383165
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Hey, Y'all! Like I told y'all, I checked myself into this what you call a “ facebook Rehab Clinic” up here just about 40 miles outside of Kalispell, Montana in a little town called Gulag. I quit MySpace and that got me a reduced rate. Things are…
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138321
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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
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